Triage: Rapid Legal Lessons for Busy Health Care Professionals is a podcast created by the K&L Gates health care practice group to inform our clients and friends of the firm about the latest developments in health law. If you would like to provide feedback or would like to suggest a topic for a future episode of Triage, please contact us. Use the icons below to subscribe to Triagevia your favorite podcast app to have our episodes delivered directly to you as they become available.

In the fifth episode of our series on the national opioid
crisis, Hilary Bowman discusses the Drug Enforcement
Administration’s (DEA) role in regulating individuals and entities
handling controlled substances, including opioids.

Specifically, the episode explains the impact of the
Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act of 2016 (CARA) and recent
rulemaking on access to maintenance and detoxification treatment
administered by physicians and midlevel practitioners. The episode
also highlights the responsibilities of all DEA registrants to
safeguard controlled substances, maintain records, and report
suspicious activity to the DEA.

About the Podcast

Triage: Rapid Legal Lessons for Busy Health Care Professionals is a podcast created by the K&L Gates health care practice group to inform our clients and friends of the firm about the latest developments in health law. Given the complex and dynamic landscape of health care, Triage will analyze issues related to payment and reimbursement, fraud and abuse, pharmacy, and information privacy, among other topics.